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4ghz...finally!!!

sablabra said:
0.4mhz, 0.4ghz would be 400mhz(3.6ghz) ;)

Nice overclock, if it passes move on to large FFTs and small FFTs. My experience is that large FFTs will put most strain on your cpu.
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small fft's will increase temps more than large fft upto 5c on my c2d, in my experience small fft's is usually more stressful than large.
 
personally i don't think orthos is the be all in terms of stability.

a mix of gaming/encoding/benching and whatever apps you use on a daily/weekly basis to place high strain on your system is better than just using orthos and declaring your system stable.

3d system stability is quite often less than the cpu's 12hrs orthos stability point for instance.
 
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tastyweat said:
Deam it what you want - works fine for me. And like i said - that's what counts, it's end user preference.

Heh... the 4.1 would've failed without a doubt lol - that clock wouldn't even run through '06 - just got a nice 12.6s Super Pi 1m
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Deam what?


A failed clock?

works fine for you?

no,

your cpu is Malfunctioning.
 
For all you doubters - eat me ;) :cool:

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I've seen orthos fail @ 23 hours before. If orthos fails then the overclock is unstable, no matter when it fails.
You have to be sensible though, and how long you test the OC for depends on what you're actually testing (if that makes sense...) For a 24/7 OC, then 8-12 hours minimum, along with some looped 3d testing. Best bet is to do both at the same time, tortures the system nicely.
If its just a quick test then 20/30 mins is plenty to get a baseline of stability. With a number of 30 min runs you can usually sus out the max of a CPU (ie 12+ hours stable) under certain cooling in ~ 4 hours give or take.

If you're having issues passing blend (over small FFT) then it's more likely to be a system related "limit" rather than CPU. Look at the tests which fail, always a great indication as to where the problem lies. Memtest's good for picking up chipset and cpu instability too, much quicker test than orthos. If you can pass 100% memtest then you're WELL on the way to a 12+ hour orthos system.

Nice work on the 4ghz btw, impressive clock.
 
W3bbo whats your room temp, and cooling system and out of interest and can you post yir voltages used?

Awesome temps btw.

Thanks
Trox
 
Trox said:
W3bbo whats your room temp, and cooling system and out of interest and can you post yir voltages used?

Awesome temps btw.

Thanks
Trox
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Room temp 20c
Cooling - Custom Alphacool (nexxos rad + nexxos block, DDC+,3xthunderblade @ full speed)
Voltages:
vcore 1.65set (1.6 actual)
FSB 1.5
Memory 2.1
Everything else set to auto.
 
w3bbo said:
For all you doubters - eat me ;) :cool:
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That is sweet :D nice clock & stable.

And Easy is right, Fail ORTHOS your cpu is malfunctioning.
I doubt very much if games/encoding/3D ect.. will show an unstable system before Ortho.
Never has my system past orthos but fail anything else yet, i can fail orthos but game all day but sometimes BSOD on exit because the game was corrupting memory while playing.
 
I've had a setup pass orthos and crash after a couple of hours gaming. Orthos is just an indication of stability but it is the BEST indication around atm.

Gonna do some gaming runs today to check.
 
w3bbo said:
I've had a setup pass orthos and crash after a couple of hours gaming. Orthos is just an indication of stability but it is the BEST indication around atm.

Gonna do some gaming runs today to check.
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Buggy games/drivers ect... :)
 
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